How to make beads from polymer clay

Making jewelry from polymer clay can not only inspire you but also be a very rewarding hobby. Original necklaces, earrings, bracelets enrich the wardrobe and will be a nice gift for the holidays for your friends. The material for the craft is divided into two big types – it is bake plastic and solidifying in the air. If you want to make beads with simplified technology, work with self-hardening plastic.

You will need

• polymer clay;
• - a rolling pin;
• - rubber gloves;
• Board for rolling out plastics;
• - toothpicks;
• - scalpel or razor blade;
• - ribbon or lace.

Instruction

1. The first stage - the production of cylinder interesting colors of the plastic. It can be rolled several ways. Try different and find the one that is best for you.
2. The first method. Cut the plastic different colors of the same large cubes. Connect them together into one layer and remember little hands, polymer clay warmed up, otherwise it while rolling will crack. Put the plastic on a flat, preferably glass surface. Can be used for rolling silicone Mat. Take a smooth rolling pin or glass bottle. Several times press the clay. Fold it and walk again with a rolling pin. You should now have a thin polymeric layer with a smooth transition from one color to another. Take a white polymer clay and roll it into a thin layer. Put this layer on rainbow and turn dense roll. Wear rubber gloves and roll it with your hands to compact. Between the layers should not be air. Blank beads ready.
3. The second method. Put on your gloves and gather in the hands of polymer clay several long plaits of different colors. Put them together and rumple, twist, fold as you would think. Then you can just make a billet cylinder and can roll out into a thin layer and rolled into a roll. But the roll will need to be sealed.
4. Make the basis for round beads. Take a piece of plastic, tsepinite and roll his balls of desired size. It is possible to cut polymer clay into small pieces, and from them to form a round base.
5. Cut with a razor or scalpel from the prepared any way you colored sausage thin plates. To stick them on the base. One ball may take one or two laps. Shape flat smooth beads.
6. Make the bead hole with a toothpick or knitting needle. If the plastic is very soft, crushed when the piercing, then leave the beads to fully harden. Then drill the holes with a drill.
7. Allow the beads to harden in the air. Then thread the holes in the ribbon or lace. Your beads are ready.